The arrest came after an 80-year-old woman, who has not yet been named, collided with a car as she used a pedestrian crossing in Coventry Road, Yardley, at 11.30am on Saturday.

Tributes left at the scene at the junction of Yew Tree lane and Coventry road in Yardley.

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A MAN was last night charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a pensioner died in a hit-and-run crash on a busy Birmingham road.

The 26-year-old, who handed himself in at Stechford police station, was due before magistrates in Birmingham today.

His arrest came after an 80-year-old woman, who has not yet been named, collided with a car as she used a pedestrian crossing in Coventry Road, Yardley, at 11.30am on Saturday. The driver was said by West Midlands Police to have sped away from the scene.

Officers later found a damaged Vauxhall Astra, believed to have been involved in the crash, abandoned in Olton, Solihull.

Onlookers who saw the aftermath of the collision told how emergency services fought to save the pensioner’s life as the air ambulance was scrambled. But she died after going into cardiac arrest.

Marlene Mousley, owner of Central Guest House, opposite the crash scene, said: “You could see they were really working hard to save her.

“We were sat here trying to breathe for her. It’s the kind of thing that will always stay with you.”

Eyewitness John Page, who runs the Gables Hotel, in Coventry Road, said both sides of the carriageways were dangerous to cross.

The 71-year-old said: “The emergency services worked on her for a long time.

“They were excellent but there was obviously nothing they could do.

“My daughter crosses that road every night and I’m always telling her to be careful.”

A single bunch of flowers had been taped to a lamppost near the crash scene yesterday.